UN says Israeli overuse of cluster bombs in Lebanon 'defies belief' This is barbarism that no one can deny even those who support Israel

UN says Israeli overuse of cluster bombs in Lebanon 'defies belief' This is barbarism that no one can deny even those who support Israel

IMEMC & Agencies - Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 03:24

Following on a statement by an Israeli commander that the Israeli army fired at least 1.2 million cluster bomblets on Lebanon during the war, the majority of which were fired when hostilities were largely over, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator verified that number and harshly criticized the Israeli use of cluster bombs.

“The outrageous fact is that nearly all of these munitions were fired in the last three to four days of the war,” David Shearer, the United Nations (UN) humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon, told a news conference in Beirut Tuesday.

The United Nations coordinator added, "Most bomblets were fired by the time the conflict had been largely resolved in the form of Resolution 1701", adding, “We know these (cluster) munitions have a failure rate and it seems to me extraordinary that they were fired off in the last hours of the war into areas where civilian populations were known to be going,” Shearer said.

Shearer, the UN humanitarian coordinator, said that Israeli authorities have not given any explanation as to why they fired so many cluster bombs just as the war was clearly drawing to a close, nor have they responded to a UN Request for the map coordinates of the cluster bomb strikes to hasten clearance efforts.

It is estimated that 30-40% of the cluster bombs which were fired by Israel failed to explode on impact, and remain a tremendous hazard for civilians who have returned home. Since the war's end, at least 15 civilians have been killed in encounters with unexploded cluster bombs, and 83 wounded, of whom 23 are children.

Only about 17,000 of the unexploded bomblets have been defused so far, and the United Nations says it could take up to 30 months to destroy most of the unexploded sub-munitions. The British-based LandMine Action group has said clearing the south could take a decade.

Clearance efforts have so far focused on villages, schools and playing areas, but will soon shift towards farmland, which provides 70 percent of household incomes in the south, said Shearer.

“The cluster munitions are stopping farmers from getting out to their fields and resuming their farming activities,” he said.

The statements from the United Nations officials verified the statement of the Israeli commander who resigned last week, who said at that time that the army he commanded had “covered towns with cluster bombs", admitting “what we did is insane and monstrous”. Over 1,000 civilians were killed during the 34-day Israeli invasion of Lebanon in July, many of them by U.S.-supplied cluster bombs fired by the Israeli military.

Re: UN says Israeli overuse of cluster bombs in Lebanon 'defies belief' This is barbarism that no one can deny even those who support Israel

F*ck the UN, they are useless teats, useless eaters, and useless ideologues suffering terminally in the belief that they makea difference in the world. Their pronouncements, resolutions, and concepts are therefore useless because there is no one capable or willing to enforce them 99% of the time.

Re: UN says Israeli overuse of cluster bombs in Lebanon 'defies belief' This is barbarism that no one can deny even those who support Israel

"Shearer, the UN humanitarian coordinator, said that Israeli authorities have not given any explanation as to why they fired so many cluster bombs just as the war was clearly drawing to a close, nor have they responded to a UN Request for the map coordinates of the cluster bomb strikes to hasten clearance efforts. "

this is pure pure evil. How can any of you claim that these are god's chosen people?

Re: UN says Israeli overuse of cluster bombs in Lebanon 'defies belief' This is barbarism that no one can deny even those who support Israel

Never in the history of modern world has anyone been so barbaric as the Israelies backed by American and their people. The American public just sat there and let it all happen. They said nothing. they turned their faces as if to say "go ahead, we will look the other way". This is Christianity at its best.

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah (aljazeera.net) JERUSALEM – Hezbollah has been transporting rockets and heavy weaponry to Palestinian camps in south Lebanon just a few miles from the Israeli border, according to Lebanese officials.

The officials told WND the office of Lebanese Prime Minister Faud Sinora sent a letter last week to Abbas Zakir, the Palestinian Authority's most senior representative in Lebanon, outlining the alleged Hezbollah weapons transfers into Palestinian camps. The letter noted "unusual activity" in and near the Palestinian camps, including the coming and going of trucks suspected of carrying weapons.

Palestinian groups, including Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, maintain armed bases in Lebanon, mostly in the al-Naemeh province just south of Beirut and in the Bekaa Valley, near Lebanon's border with Syria and Israel. Fatah is the party of PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

The reports follow a WND article last month quoting Lebanese officials claiming Hezbollah, with the help of Iran, started building underground war bunkers in Lebanon's Palestinian camps.

During its 34-day confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon that began July 12, Israel destroyed scores of complex Hezbollah bunkers that snaked along the Lebanese side of the Israel-Lebanon border. Military officials said they were surprised by the scale of the Hezbollah bunkers, in which Israeli troops reportedly found war rooms with advanced eavesdropping and surveillance equipment they noted were made by Iran.

A senior Lebanese official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told WND Hezbollah started building a new set of bunker systems, this time in Palestinian refugee camps.

"The Lebanese Army doesn't have the authority to patrol inside the camps," said the official. "Hezbollah knows it is safe there to rebuild their war bunkers, and they began doing so with Iranian help."

A second Lebanese official confirmed the information, which came one day after Israel's Army Radio reported Hezbollah was seen by the Israeli army dismantling 14 outposts near the border with Israel, removing rockets and equipment for transport.

According to Army Radio, Hezbollah members blocked entry to their outposts using bulldozers. Trucks then removed weapons and other munitions from the area. Vehicles also reportedly cleared furniture and equipment from the outposts.

The Lebanese Army and a contingent of several thousand international troops have deployed in South Lebanon. None of the forces are authorized to enter Palestinian refugee camps.

The Lebanese government has stated its army will not confront Hezbollah or work to disarm the group. An agreement reached with Hezbollah last month allows the Lebanese militia to retain its weapons as long as it doesn't display the arms in public.

The agreement is in violation of the U.N. cease-fire resolution that ended confrontations initiated when Hezbollah ambushed an Israeli patrol unit, kidnapping two soldiers and killing eight others. The resolution calls for the eventual disarming of Hezbollah.

During a Hezbollah "victory" parade in south Beirut last Friday, the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, declared Hezbollah possesses more than 20,0000 rockets aimed at Israel and pledged his group will quickly reestablish militant bases in Lebanon.

Making his first public appearance since the war started, Nasrallah drew loud applause from the crowd when he vowed: "We will rehabilitate the force and bases within a short period of time."

"The resistance today is stronger than it was on July 12," Nasrallah said. "He who wants to weaken us is miscalculating."

Israeli security officials did not deny Nasrallah's claims of continuing to maintain a large rocket arsenal.

An official pointed to a volley of 240 rockets fired by Hezbollah one day before last month's cease-fire was imposed, the largest number the group had launched in a 24-hour period. One Israeli civilian was killed in the attacks; 26 others were injured.

"The message sent is that Hezbollah absolutely maintains the capability of firing hundreds of rockets per day into Israel," commented the official. "Wasn't one of the [Israeli] military campaign's main goals to eliminate the rocket threat?"

Re: UN says Israeli overuse of cluster bombs in Lebanon 'defies belief' This is barbarism that no one can deny even those who support Israel

"Shearer, the UN humanitarian coordinator, said that Israeli authorities have not given any explanation as to why they fired so many cluster bombs just as the war was clearly drawing to a close, nor have they responded to a UN Request for the map coordinates of the cluster bomb strikes to hasten clearance efforts. "

this is pure pure evil. How can any of you claim that these are god's chosen people?

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 122539

They are the UN-CHOSEN people. They were "chosen" by a Demonic Entity.

Re: UN says Israeli overuse of cluster bombs in Lebanon 'defies belief' This is barbarism that no one can deny even those who support Israel

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Re: UN says Israeli overuse of cluster bombs in Lebanon 'defies belief' This is barbarism that no one can deny even those who support Israel

Barbaric !

LOL,

Try Islamic Fundy's lopping off heads of LIVING screaming hostages, then sending the video around the world via Internet & Media outlets.

Lets put this all into perspective people.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68247

WOW, what a moron. Are you perhaps a representative of American people or Europe? Here we are talking about the worst act any one has done in modern history and yet claim to be god's chosen people and thus acknowledging that God is doing all this to these people. How do you try to justify this act regardless of what other people in other parts of the world have done? People killed in Lebenon had nothing to do with Iraq or Al queida. You are truely a barbaric moron.

Re: UN says Israeli overuse of cluster bombs in Lebanon 'defies belief' This is barbarism that no one can deny even those who support Israel

Amazing how you people go on the defensive. What is it that you are so desparate to support Israel? Are these people your Gods? Do they have this much hold on you that you are not even able to acknowledge how barbaric they are?

Re: UN says Israeli overuse of cluster bombs in Lebanon 'defies belief' This is barbarism that no one can deny even those who support Israel

THEY DECIDED TO CREAT THEIR OWN BUFFER ZONE LMAO OH AN IT WAS AFTER LEZBOLLAH WAS SEEN SHOOTING MISSILES FILLED WITH BALL BEARING SHRAPEL TO INFLICT MORE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 91701

OK LET´S COUNT SHALL WE LMAO HOW MANY ISRAELI CIVILIAN CASUALTIES WERE THERE COMPARED TO THE PALESTINIAN CIVILIAN VICTIMS GO CHECK IT OUT LMAO THIS IS GENOCIDE AND SERIOUS WAR CRIMES MAN. PHOSPHORUS AND CLUSTER BOMBS AGAINST WHAT LMAO.

Seriously.

Wake up.

There is a world of real people out there that are not accepting this.

The suspects must face trials just like the Nuremberg trials. Nothing else could be more important right now.

Re: UN says Israeli overuse of cluster bombs in Lebanon 'defies belief' This is barbarism that no one can deny even those who support Israel

I have no doubt that Hezbollah would have done the same thing, given the opportunity.Unfortunately for them, their weapons are a bit more crude.

Quoting: Evil Twin

here is another moron. I assume they would do the same. I have no proof and i know they do not have the means, but i still am going to assume in order to make myself less guilty and killevery single child.WOW man, tell me? Are you American?

Re: UN says Israeli overuse of cluster bombs in Lebanon 'defies belief' This is barbarism that no one can deny even those who support Israel

I have no doubt that Hezbollah would have done the same thing, given the opportunity.Unfortunately for them, their weapons are a bit more crude.

here is another moron. I assume they would do the same. I have no proof and i know they do not have the means, but i still am going to assume in order to make myself less guilty and killevery single child.WOW man, tell me? Are you American?

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 122539

I assume you aren't aware that much of Islam has vowed the complete destruction of Israel. "Drive them into the sea" is what they would like to do.I suppose lobbing unguided rockets full of ball bearings into Israeli cities is also perfectly acceptable behavior.I don't have to justify anything. War is war, and it's fucking brutal. The point of war is to break things and kill people.Israel is just better prepared to do that.

Re: UN says Israeli overuse of cluster bombs in Lebanon 'defies belief' This is barbarism that no one can deny even those who support Israel

Amazing how you people go on the defensive. What is it that you are so desparate to support Israel? Are these people your Gods? Do they have this much hold on you that you are not even able to acknowledge how barbaric they are?

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 122539

they're afraid if they don't back israel 100% they won't get into heaven?they're afraid if they don't back israel 100% they'll be called racist?they don't know the state from the people?barbaric comes in all people.

Re: UN says Israeli overuse of cluster bombs in Lebanon 'defies belief' This is barbarism that no one can deny even those who support Israel

I assume you aren't aware that much of Islam has vowed the complete destruction of Israel. "Drive them into the sea" is what they would like to do.I suppose lobbing unguided rockets full of ball bearings into Israeli cities is also perfectly acceptable behavior.I don't have to justify anything. War is war, and it's fucking brutal. The point of war is to break things and kill people.Israel is just better prepared to do that.

Quoting: Evil Twin

was it better that israel drove lebanese into the sea?

were the USA supplied weapons (missles) so much better to be used on lebanon?